> I appreciate that question. I'm ambitious. Not everyone is ambitious. I'm sure if I don't win in this election, I'll be back at the next one running again. What drives my ambition is a desire to help people. I am not independently wealthy, but I do donate a lot of time and money to helping people.

> I'm not perfect, but I want it to be said that I did good work. Reputation points are one way we keep score here. Badges are another. They attempt to quantify the degree to which we have helped people. I believe I can help people as a moderator too. That's why I'm asking for your vote.

@Telkitty Jan and The Owl haven't been existing as separate entities for many years now. Now, only Jan D'Vorak, O̥̣̲͎̜͉̮v̤̥͔̗͔̟ę̲̳̘r̡̞̪̟͎͍ͅs̹̫̼̠̹̳ͅe͏ẹ̀r̜͕͓̹̬ ̴̱͖̥̮O̲̪͓͉͓f̦ ̮̯̹̫͞T̝͈̻̕h͙ẹ̲̩͎̯͇ ̷̼͙̼̩Ó̘̠̺w̩̙̙l̶̺͇̻̞̗̯̭ are.

@bjb568 I have further elaborated, and even compared my answer to Andy's - I don't know if I need to add anything further, but if people ask questions that cause me to clarify my responses, I'll be glad to get them: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/337571/…

Barely any nomination text. Weird answers to the questions asked, circumventing them completely in some cases. Given that he has done this whole thing 3 times now (I think), I'd expect something different.

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maybe he thinks that election is like lottery, the more entries you make, higher chance you get to win

@Bart I see it as "I don't really care if I'll be elected or not, just want to try" - he's serious about it, but unlike all others, don't really care. He'll make fine moderator as far as I can see, it's just that he's not really... keen about it.

The probability of being elected is 14% on the first try, 38% on the second, 47% on the third, 50% on the fourth, and then it drops down to 0%. (If we think that probability = frequency of happening in the past, which we shouldn't.)

I am Neal aka Naftali and here are my answers to your questions:
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Currently, when a moderator messages a user, the user sees which moderator is messaging them. This includes when a moderator issues a timed suspension.
Generally, I have no problem with this. Sometimes a user needs to be gently reminded to be nicer in comments, or to disclose when they're advert...

The opportunity to interact with your fellow SO users in a greater capacity is undeniably attractive, but it doesn't come without cost. As a moderator you would have an incredibly high level of visibility. This post shows that such visibility - coupled with a disagreement with the wrong user - ca...

Scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG) is American slang meaning a rough estimate made by an expert in the field, based on experience and intuition. It is similar to the slang word guesstimate, a portmanteau of guess and estimate.
== History ==
The slang term "SWAG" is generally thought to have originated in the US military, either the Army or the Air Force. Journalist Melvin J. Lasky wrote that it was first used casually by US Army General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War. Westmoreland would sometimes reply "SWAG" to reporters' questions about American failure to neutralize the enem...

On November 2013 I created this "secret" persona in which I went all out:
New email address
New JSFiddle account
New GitHub account
Permission from the Stack Exchange team to run my experiment
... And so much more.
Why did I do this?
This was an experiment if people can treat a new user any...